News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-01-20
NOTES OF THE DAY.

CAREFUL estimates puts this years
wine vintage in California at 10, 500, 900
| gallons. About one seventh of the crop
has been made into brandy.
THE North Star Toboggan Club of
| Grand Forks, Oak, claim to have the
longest artificial slide in the world. The
| trestle is 900 feet long, with fall of 20
| feet in 100 for the first 800 feet.
LAUREL HILL, ten miles from Johns
town, Pa, has yielded more deer this
season than any other part of the Allie
gheny Mountains. Two local hunters
killed eight one week recently, making
twenty-five that they have shot, and
workmen on the South Fork reservoir
kill about all they want for meat.
A TRAIN on the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad, in charge of new
engineer and a new conductor, came to
place near Fulton, Ill, where several
short tracks branched off from the main
line They wanted to 90 to Fulton, and
did not know which track to take, so
they hunted up farmer and inquired,
Two hunters from the Bad Lands,
Oak, report that they discovered an i'm
mense geyser of fire about 100 miles west
of Bismark They say that the flames
came right out of the earth and rose at
least 100 feet into the air, and that the
snow wss melted for a quarter of mile
around the flame. 1t is claimed that
there are burning coal veins underlying
this section of the Bad Lands and that
they account for this fire geyser.
LITTLE Felipe Meldonado, a seven
year old Spanish boy of Los Angeles,
while playing about the yard with his
fathers horse, tied the end of the halter
around his own ankle. Then he and
the horse trotted around until jerk by
the horse threw the boy under his heels
and frightened him so that he set off on
run through the open gate, dragging
his little playfellow after him. He ran
two miles without stopping, and little
Felipe was alive then, but unconscious.
He died soon after.
JOSEPH PERRIN of Grass Valley. Col
had a three-ycar-old Ayrshire COW that
showed a remarkable degree of affection
for her first calf. When the cali was
three months old it was taken away from
the mother and sent to the butcher, but
from the moment of separation the cow
refused to eat, although food was con-
stantly accessible to her. She was evil
IDENTIFY in great mental distress, bawling
almost constantly for several days and
nights, and finally laid down and died,
although in excellent condition, and
showing no symptoms of disease. The
COW plainly enough grieved itself to
death for the loss of its calf.
A wELL-DREssED man entered Phila-
delphia hotel the other day, registered,
engaged room, and then, taking a seal
ed envelope from his pocket, handed it
to the clerk, saying: ''There is q check
in this envelope for $500. 1 want you
to put it in your safe and keep it for me
until Saturday. Don't give it to me be-
fore that time, for if you do I'll be sure
to get it cashed and spend it ALL" On
the strength of this he ran such bill
that the proprietor's suspicious were
aroused and, after trying in vain to get
the ranger to settle up, he had him ar
rested. The envelope contained piece
of tissue paper. The fellow played the
same game more than once in that city
A WRITER in the independent of Rom
mey, Me-, truthful man, too says that
Inc olner uay lie saw q dOS trying to
bury live rabbit which he had caught.
He held the RABBIT in his mouth while
he dug its grave with his paws. Wher
the grave was prepared, he put its I'M
willing occupant into it, covered it up
carefully, and, after patting the dirt well
with its paws, retired to little dis
lance and lay down, watching it. Pres
emily bunny, doubtless thinking judg-
ment day hal arrived, arose from the |
tomb and started off on run. The dog
soon caught him and buried him again. !
Three times the little animal resurre ted |
itself, and each time the dog caught and
buried it. but on the fourth trial CON
cluded that the rabbit was little too
lively corpse, and killed it before pro-
ceeding with the obsequies.